For the first time in his tenure as Kentucky’s basketball coach, John Calipari might be guiding a team that does not feature a future top-10 NBA Draft pick.
There’s still time — plenty of it, in fact — for one or more of these young Wildcats to break out and keep Calipari’s streak, which also dates back to his final two seasons at Memphis, intact, but zero UK players were featured among the top 10 in ESPN’s latest 2018 draft prospect rankings released earlier this month.
That doesn’t mean — despite what the more pessimistic segment of the UK fan base might think — that this team is without its future pros.